When the person you're pretending to be gets too heavy to carry, you realize that the mask you've worn for so long has become your actual face.
C-suite clients are getting treatments to age themselves down, with a focus on looking energetic, young, and full of vitality. Plastic surgeons report a significant increase in demand for facial procedures among executives.
You just have to immerse yourself in it. You should just constantly be building. That's what's going to give you the best chance of having the relevant skill set that is needed to make a difference in technology.
Climbing up was fairly natural and easy, simply because I just disregarded all the status quo and the rules and realized what's the right thing to do, and went all the way with it.
When the CEO held a virtual town hall in 2020 and said there needed to be layoffs, I knew I would be one of the first to go because I served zero purpose at that point.
Character-driven leaders who display four cardinal virtues - integrity, compassion, the ability to forgive and forget, and accountability - consistently deliver return on assets up to five times larger than the ROAs produced by their counterparts with a self-focused leadership style, who never or rarely exhibit those four traits.
